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Written by Ian on 30/08/10

Dynamic creation of HTML select menu from PHP arrays

Written by Ian on 26/08/08

Sometimes you have a PHP array and you want to use this to create a pulldown select menu in a webpage. Of course you can do it manually - but why not use a simple function to do all the work for you? In addition, we will add the ability for the selections you have made to be 'remembered' whenever you refresh or return to that page

Graph plotting on the web

Written by Ian on 26/08/08

Did you even need to plot graphs dynamically in a webpage?• Not sure how to draw lines in HTML or Javascript (you can't really), and don't want to learn Java or Flash?• Well this is the open source tool for you

XP Vista file sharing tutorial

Written by Tom on 04/04/08

Just upgraded to OS-X Leopard and found your printers stopped working?

Written by Ian on Wednesday 28/11/07

Did you just upgraded to OS-X Leopard and discover all your printer configuration was removed? If you're like me you would try to add it back again, finding that the configuration utility no longer works. What you need to do is...

Written by Tom on Wednesday 22/08/07

How to debug a VSAT system.

Written by Tom on Monday 11/06/07

The other day the Downstream SNR of our VSAT broadband internet system dropped from 9.9 (good) to 4.5 (bad) the Tx indicator on the iDirect 3100 router was flicking on and off intermittently. So what’s the problem? Here is a step by step account of the debugging process

Problems living behind NAT/proxy, Email and Remote Access to PC’s.

Written by Tom on Thursday 31/05/07

Originally the ISP allocated a 10.0.0.0 private IP address to our iDirect router. Our traffic is beamed via satellite to the ISP NOC and then it passes through a NAT/proxy and the IP address is translated to one of their public IP addresses.

Windows Server 2003 DNS debugging tutorial.

Written by Tom on Saturday 20/01/07

Where I am working currently in Pakistan there are regular issues with providers and connection reliability. Some of the issues encountered had to do with the DNS provider, here is a brief tutorial on how to test that the DNS provider is up and running

Have You Got What it takes: IT manager of the year.

Written by Tom on Tuesday 12/12/06

Will SPAM kill email.

Written by Tom on Tuesday 12/12/06

The last months have been bad for SPAM, to the extent that our mail provider has now said that they can no longer provide their services for us. We have one hundred or so email accounts and as we all know a large proportion of the email

SPAM tips and tricks on reducing it.

Written by Tom on Tuesday 12/12/06

There has been a significant increase in SPAM in the last couple of months. We all know that clear text email addresses are easy fodder for the netbots. The increase of SPAM has been blamed on a virus called 'SpamThru' which